Red fanta

[Everyman]

Do Thai people actually drink red fanta or do they only offer it to spirits?

 

And why do they suppose spirits like red fanta anyway?

 

[Ralf001]

Blood sacrifice.

[The Fugitive]

Wife has a Buddhist religious goods/garland flower shop. It's an everyday seller!

[JBChiangRai]

I offer money to the spirits every day, I throw money up into the air god/spirits take what they want and what they don't take, I take back.

[VillageIdiot]

The Thais I knew used to say that it all began with the red soda pop symbolizing wine as offerings to King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) after he passed away.

It seems that he had a taste for red wine acquired after a trip to British India in 1872.

State visits to Europe in 1897 and 1907 no doubt refined his relish.

[Briggsy]

On 12/31/2024 at 8:08 AM, Everyman said:

And why do they suppose spirits like red fanta anyway?

Offer a green one. I bet they don't drink it.

[Lucky Bones]

Red Fanta & a bottle of whiskey for the Joss House.

My wife was horrified to find the bottle of whiskey gone.

That was 13 years ago.🙃🙃

[harryviking]

Anyone drinking that dreadful Red Fanta must have a death wish....😣

[Srikcir]

Do Thai people know that Fanta soda brand (now owned by Coke-Cola) was invented in Nazi Germany for Nazi German troops when Germany could no longer make Coke-Cola due to Western embargoes on its ingredients? As an idiom for "red blood," Red Fanta can have a much darker meaning.

[Nick Carter icp]

7 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

Do Thai people know that Fanta soda brand (now owned by Coke-Cola) was invented in Nazi Germany for Nazi German troops when Germany could no longer make Coke-Cola due to Western embargoes on its ingredients? As an idiom for "red blood," Red Fanta can have a much darker meaning.

 

   Well during WW2 the Coke cola factories in Germany were unable to make the drink due to import restrictions  . so what they did was to make another drink in the factories using ingredients they could source.

   The drink was for public consumption , rather than for the Nazi soldiers

[jas007]

I never paid much attention, but after seeing all the Red Fanta left at the spirit houses all the time, my first thought was that maybe Thai people just like Red Fanta.  Then someone told me it represented a blood sacrifice of some sort.  

[thesetat]

i have never seen a Thai drink the red Fanta... So I am assuming it is only used to appease Buddha in offerings. 

[khunPer]

On 12/31/2024 at 2:08 AM, Everyman said:

Do Thai people actually drink red fanta or do they only offer it to spirits?

 

And why do they suppose spirits like red fanta anyway?

 

Yes, Thais do indeed drink red Fanta, but preferably mixed with lao khao – local white spirit – the red Fanta actually makes the lao khao reasonable drinkable.

 

Red Fanta with lao khao spirit is kindly offered to songkran humanlike spirits – look at the pale red color, it's hasip/hasip mix...

 

 

For the spirit house servings there are answers, like "blood" and especially that young ghosts – i.e. children – likes the sweet strawberry taste. The habbit began with sweet red drinks – they are still used, the small plastic containers with a straw in my photo – and later carbonated stuff seems to be preferred by the aetheral beings; especially Fanta seems more in the ghosts' favour than the local Est-competitor, based on my statistic counts in front of several checked spirit-homes...

 

[cdemundo]

Every well-informed person knows that the sacrifice most pleasing to supernatural beings is/are personal checks or banknotes quietly placed in a collection plate at a service in a Christian place of worship on a Sunday by a person dressed in their very best clothes.

[pest]

We drink it at kids birghday parties 

I quite like it 

[rwill]

Yes they drink red soda.  No they don't really know why the give red soda to the spirits other than saying they like it.

 

I've told some friends they should put a red one and a green one out and see which one empties frist so they will really know what the spirit likes.

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, jas007 said:

I never paid much attention, but after seeing all the Red Fanta left at the spirit houses all the time, my first thought was that maybe Thai people just like Red Fanta.  Then someone told me it represented a blood sacrifice of some sort.  

 

I think as outsiders (foreigners) we can often over think things of a very simplistic nature.

 

Why is red Fanta offered ??...  because everyone else does it...  I think sometimes things are just that simple and we go down the rabbit hole of trying to explain a reason for something that has no reason.

 

 

[richard_smith237]

3 hours ago, harryviking said:

Anyone drinking that dreadful Red Fanta must have a death wish....😣

 

There's a certain irony in you using that statement when your avatar is a motorcycle !!! 

[PETERTHEEATER]

4 hours ago, harryviking said:

Anyone drinking that dreadful Red Fanta must have a death wish....😣

Delete the word 'Red' and I would agree with you. 😀

[SiSePuede419]

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